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JERICHO CENTRE.
ESSEX.


A postal card from Constautnople an
aounces the safe arrival at that place OF
Rev. William English and family, Nov.
1. on their way to the missionary station
At Slyas. They were very glad 10 meet
friends there and to hear the English
.auEuu-e spoken again. 800. May Abbey
t..,, -- -chool in District No 4, and Jen-
7ue .t.AIy in District No. 6.....,. People
acre are rejoicing that the dearth Of water
8 over. The wells and springs are hllIng
IN RAPIDLY. On Monday of last week
Thomas Carly died, aged about 50. About
ne Tine of his death his brother Patrick
Who was then sick in bed, seemed to have
a Dresentjment that something had hap
,,tned to Thomas, inquired il they had
oeard from him that Wu.niug, and rose
rom his bed and locke HN'ously toward
his hrOtber's residenc, ur.' ~, saying he
was sure something had n1ppened over
here. On the Sunday evening following
patrick died, aged -. They were both
longtime residents Of Essex, citizens OF
g0od repute and have quite large families
% caildren. Patrick has sons and daugh-
ters IN California TO whom the death OF
heir father, who, with their mother, they
were expecting soon 10 welcome IN thelr
California home, VIII be sad news and a
treat rNl,ction Mrs. Seneca Place and
Mrs. Burritt are circulating petition to
Congress praying that body to prohibit
me manufacture and sale OF alcoholic
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Isle La Motto.

Footmen crossed on the ice near the
bridge last Thursday. .......S School com
menced in district No. ,, last Monday,
with NJ. b. Rockwell as teacher. ......
People over this way are greatly excited
over the postolice, no mail leaving town
last Saturday and none being brought
to town, though Saturday is one of our
goes and comes Just as it happens to. A
petition, largely signed, has bach circu-
lated to have the postotlice taken to the
centre of the town where it should be
kept for the best accommodation of all
Of GsPt and IN MF Fovh f. b.
Sunday. ...... Frank Hill, son of w. +.
Hill, left last Monday for a soiourn
with Charles Wyman of ST. Adams. 49,.
Mrs. James Duba and family left last
| Monday for their new home in MorriSville.
........ Alex Jarvah is very low with ty
phoid lever.
People are rejoicing over the prospect
of water in wells that have been so long
useless. We have had few cases of
! ''~h'h" q in town, none of which have
sy.'f JloVei fatal. Miss May Adams
is home from MONTPELIER seminary dur
ing vacation. 49,. Presiding Elder Culver
was present and held quarterly meeting
exercises last Sunday. 49,. Seymour Pike
will leave this week for New York to fin
ish course in stenography 1t wss a
pleasant Thanksgiving party that assem-
bled at the residence of Dyer Hill, last
week Thursday, a large number of Chill
dren and grandchildren of Mrs. Mercy
Hill being present. .....M Mrs. Mercy Hill,
aged 50, last May, is still hale and hearty
and works most of the time on some light
work. She and her sister, Mrs. Polly
Hall arg the only survivors Of a family oil
IS children, al Of which, with the eXcep
ion If enc are married AT present Mrs
| buc q y e. q Up =
benz IS years cd, 3} living grandchild
reu 43 great grand chi lren, aud foul
great-great grandchildren She has beer
a widow since lS3l and /, the Oldest person
in town. ..... Miss Helena llblcOmb had E
Thanksgiving prrty.......Ihe nOrthenC
the removal OF the pDStoilice to he sOutl
part Of the town, making between three
and four extra miles travel over thes,
roads to reach the Office, o say nothing
about their getting home. Born a
Isle La Motto, November II, son to Mr.
and Mrs. Ezra l-amorouN
stowe.
George Jrnney died Monday morning
, of Brlght's u sea-e and fever. aged 4
wears. lie Was liked 10y ali aud will b.
sadly missed His funeral took plao
, Wednesday afternoon. DR.. MinarC
of Burlmg tOn was called to attend Nj
Jeuuey .......R Rev. George Smith preach
ed It the Methodist church, Saturd y
evening ....... Edward Corliss of Oxford
n. H., has been visiting in town. ......
Rev. Mr. Parsons of Lowell will hol
revival meetings, here in January. o..
II. Warren broke his leg while WORKING
t in the woods, recently ....,.,.The Noun
: Mansfield hotel property is now owned b.
a stock company OF winch oilas Quincy o
, the fremont hotel, Boston, is president
/ ........ Bert Buzzell has moved his bar
} Der shop to Main street, where he may b.
t found early and late. 49,. Violet Sim
c mons will attend school at Montpelier thi
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kno vn Barlow case, at St Johnsbury,
Friday. The banks interested ara the
Passumpsic, Merchants aud First Ma.
tlonal of St Johnsbury, the banks of Yer
gennes, Middlebury, Brandon and Bel
lows Falls aud the Baxter bank Of But-
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NORTHERN sew YORK.


The Catholic ladies will hold a bazaar
at Music hail during holiday week ..'-
me ladies' Of Christ church will hold a
lalr at Montgomery hall Wednesday. Dec.
H.. Work will soon be begun on the
new union depot.
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RELIGIOUS INrELLIGENCE.

Rev. +. +. Brown of Canton, n. Y.,who
has accepted a call to the pastorate OF the
Baptist church at Manchester Centre com
menced his labors Sunday.
Miss Mary Woodbury. of Connecticut
has been assisting Rev NJ. =. Bell in spe-
cial services at West Berkshire and nearly
two score have been converted.
About 500 have been expended on
church repairs at Rchford, a new door
having been put in the basement, and the
audience room newly carpeted and paper
ed. In addition to this, running water
has been put into the parsonage at an addi-
tiouu expense of $50.
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drinks III Jne DlStrlCt OF COlUmOla. lDey
were very successful in procuring sigma
lures and hopeful in regard to the success
of their petition.
ST. GEORGE.
f.. Hinsdill and son, one day last week,
with the assistance of neighbors, mostly
from adjoining towns, hauled with OK
teams, the corn barn and granary from
his Lockwood fern to his present resi-
dence . School opened again on the 5lh
inst with three scholars in the forenoon
and two in the afternoon. something IN
the way of getting others to school should
be done ere the whole thing freezes out.
. Mrs. II. II. Tilley and daughters are
expected home from their Williamsport,
Pa, visit the last of this week. There
was recorded in the town clerks Office a
few days ago a rather ancient document
in the shape of a deed for personal proper
~ executed by Mrs Debora sutton on the
first day of January A. ID. lS47. Mrs. Ed
Mills has been quite dangerously sick for
the past few days.. Recent news from
| Wisconsin tells that George w. lsham has
| moved from Oak Grove to Watertown,
where he is engaged in the restaurant
| business. . NJ. w. Hinsdill has sold TO II.
| Lawrence his well known heavy weight
| oxen. H. 3. Carr has bought. of the
O'Brien Brothers their high kickers for
$3.50.
The party of Western eXcursionsts who
have been so repeatedly delayed in their
movements, started on Saturday night
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. L. Quinn, Miss Eva Finn
and Mrs. Harriet Ashley taking the mail
| train, and the balance of the party taking
the eXpress-Mr and Mrs. Samuel How.
ard Miss Lena Howard and Mr. Will
| Howard Mr.. and Mrs j. ;. Benham Mrs.
| George Mead and her two children. a
| In nntf1 her of pitiypnG assem- hlgO
ut the station to wish them prosperous
| Journey. Most of the number are going
| through to California. Mr.. and Mrs
| Quinn take the Southern Pacific, but the
other through passengers ticketed
to san Diego by the Chicago and
| Subscription papers are being passed for
raising u sufficient sum to secure the ser
vices of Mr. G. 5, Cornell of Burlington
TO take charge of two musical classes here
during the coming winter. Mr. Cornell
is to be in town next Friday evening, and
a meeting of all interested is called at the
Congregational vestry, at which time 1t Is
hoped that arrangements may be com
pleted. There was lively runaway
through Main street just after dark on
saturday evening. Mr.. Cortis Mayville's
span of horses in some way started FOR
home on their own account, but were
stopped near Rankin's store without any
""'i"se 0e'is 'one
HINEsBURGH.
Mrs. Sanford Ross slipped and fell,
mond Iawrence is in feeble health this
winter ,1'' Miss Eta Nav Rice of New
YnrI who has snent the summer and fail
at DR. Rnsspii,s Is very low and not eX.
nerted t0 i've Tbere are about 60 neonle
IN tn,vn over "a years old The Bantist
society have not secured Il pastor yet, but
sunday services Tha sunday school il
nnder Snnerintpud4ut ! II Aliens care
and the fhnrch meetings. are faithfully
Rent m viii Good interest The three
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-09
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

John Stacy, a 14-year-old lad, fell
through the ice while attempting to skate
ut Rutland Friday He was caught and
saved by companion the third time that
ne put his head above the water.
Mary II. Dillingham;, an invalid girl,
residing in Lisbon, n. Y, met shocking
accident on Tuesday. She was watching
the boiling of kettle of soap, out of
doors, when she tainted and fell into the
fire, burning her left arm, her left ear
and the hair Off her head. When found
she was unconscious and her flesh burned.
in some places, to a crisp. At last &C
counts it was thought she would recover.
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Weekty Free Press.


St. A lbanS III November was S15, 042. II.
The value of the free goods entered WAS
$50, 1926
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Conant Of
BrattleDoro celebrated their Goth we'd
ding annlN ny last week
Fifty buildings have gone up in and
around Newport during the past two
years.
Moulton Bro iers of West Randolph
will soou add 100 head OF Jersey cattle to
their da,lS ''ucy lao" make 2OOO pounds
OF butter day.
There are over 1900 incandescent elec
trio lights in use va the village of Bellows
Falls. The cost 81 Zach light to the con
sumer is one cent per hour,
The Bellows Falls Library association
has voted TO give all funds on hand to the
town of Rockingham in order to establish
library. The association recommends
that the library be placed in the hands OF
nine trustees and that there be Librarian
and two assistants, one at SaXtons River
and one at Rockingham.
-. Bardon of Albany has been ap,
pointed mail agent on the route between
| Rutland and Albany, over the Delaware
and Hudson railroad.
The contract for the monument TO be
erected at Brooklyn in memory or the
late Henry Ward Beecher has been award
ed to the Carrick Brothers granite com
pany at ST. Johnsbury.
Transfer Agent Peck handled at the Rut-
land railway station during the month of
November Sl39 pouches and sacks 2i2l of
these being despatched TO and from the
postofliCe. THIS Is an increase over the
corresponding month of last year of POO.
There WAS "A meeting of the representa-
tives of the Vermont banks, against which
suits have been brought in the we'll
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South Royalton.

lowing officers: NJ. J. Sargent, c. l.. d.
Leavitt, ;. V. G. Hiram Rogers, J. V.
g. Frank Lyman, y. NJ. ; II. Dewey,
chaplain A, n. Northrop, ;. : NJ. ).
Rumrill, o. d. d. Faueuf, o. G.; dele
gate, Albert Sargent alternate, John
Shepard.
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st. Johnsbury

DR.. II Toward has ouened the skntipg
rink on the river. Quite a delegation
of the Sons of Veterans from this place
attended an entertainment given by the
same society AT West Concord, Saturday
evening. 800. PostofIice Inspectors Clark
and Hall are in town.The Salvation
army have received renforcements by q
new captain and lieutenant.
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THE NEWS In VERMONT.
MATTERS OF INTEREST IN OUR OWN
STATE.
Chittenden County.

in the absence of the pastor, who
breaches morning and evening in the
Unitarian church at Montpelier, the Rev.
s.. Smiley of Richmond will oiIiciate on
sunday, December II, in the Universalist
church. Hour OF service 2:3O p. m All
welcome.
The Weekly Free Press from
this date is reduced one half-it
IS now only ONE DOLLAR a
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N;Iddlebury

The December term of the Addison
County Court will open Tuesday, Deem
Der 10, judge Tyler of Brattleboro presid-
ing. The jury calendar contains 10 cases
II promises to be a long term Albert
Chapman, secretary of the National Wool
Growers and the Vermont Sheep breeders
association, is in Washington attending
the wool growers meeting
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-09

Mrs. r.. NJ. Huntey is quite sick and
mas been visited several times by DR.. Bur
lick of Winooski who has hopes of her re
covery %. II. w. Darlington has made and
sold Il 200 cheese boxes this season.,
Henry \. BiXby has been very sick but is
reported better Our new physician is
very busy in his profession, and his pa.
tents appear to appreciate his newly
9edued skill
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-09

Dan Cushman takes the Cushman farm
for one year ..-. Lyman Gilbert has taken
all the machinery out of the old tannery
and converted the building into COW
barn ..... Hayden Gilbert does not carry
on the McAllster farm another year but
goes back on to bis own farm in Bakers
field.
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year.
Orange County Court docket for De
cember tern 1887, contains 1853 cases at
law and "a IA chancery. But few cases
have been ASST, = on jury trial and of
these but few VIII probably be tried, as
December is always the shorter jury
term. Hon Jonathan Ross is presiding
judge and Hons. Cyrus L. Lathrop and
G. G. Sargent are assistant judges. Hon.
5. b. Hebard has been appointed clerk IN
place of Hon. Il. q. Hinckley, deceased.
johnson.
l. Iullington had $50 blaze in his
house caused by the stove hugging the
partition too closely. 49,, The fire hend
called at Pixies hotel, but did very little
damage. .... Commencing Tuesday the
stores Will close at s O'Clock p, M, on
Tuesdays and Fridays. .... Wick Field:
is clerking at the Johnson house for Pike
! Brothers Ill. NJ. Jones is visiting rela
lives in New Hampshire. &c.. Clarence
| Harrington has returned from visit &c
Hardwick. e. p. Carpenter has re
turned from Boston.
New Haven.
| Miss Lizzie Wilson began her thirC
| term as teacher in district No. =, on Mon
day Mr.. Pond of Addison, teaches
in Depot district and Miss Brunette takes
the village school. ....... Mrs. Emma
Wicker of Bristol, and her mother have
purchased the Winslow house at the Cen
ire, and will take possession in the spring
49,. Mrs. w. W. Warren and famil!
leave for Adams, Mass, about the frs
of January, Mr.. Warren going into thu
mercantile business. 49,. The petit jur
ors drawn from town to the Decembe
term of the County Court are, ). ID
Doud, and NJ. f. Barnum. .,..... The wild
ow of Charles Bisbee, ST., who was 81
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A. A. Joslyn of Barre is in town. .....
Mrs. John Ferris is very sick with erysip-
elias 49,. Mr.. Shean is back on his old sec
ton and Patrick Hanlon to the sans posi-
ton farther south. ....... While Gilbert
Andrews was skidding logs in the woods
yesterday skid flew back, striking him
in the head knocking him down. He
was taken up unconscious, but it is hoped
not seriously injured.
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=. j. White has erected commodious
morse sheds near his store for the conven-
ence Of his patrons. I'D. Shaw is build
trade Durham calf, eight months old, that
weighs 127l5 pounds....A. w. Howard
has the plans laid for his new house on
the Fisher farm, and has begun making
excavations for the cellar. Budd Kinnie
and Ed Fowler returned last week from
the West. IN. +. Thompson is in Mont
,plipr
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Car of Russia arrived at Berlin on
the 18th, and was appropriately received,
SENATOR FOUNTAIN H. KETCHUM, of st.
Louis, was found guilty on the 18th in the
United States Court of Illegal registra-
ton.
LORD LYTToN has been elected lord
rector of Glasgow (Scotland) University.
GENERAL ARMSTRONG says Sitting Bull
caused all the trouble with the Crows.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Ludlow,
KY, near Cincinnati, on the 18th, the loss
amounting to $4,000.
The N. E. Church Extenson Society was
in session in Philadelphia on the 18th,
/ Bishop Bowman presiding.
Mr.. PARyELL has decided to make no
speeches during the recess Of Parla-
ment.
THE Union Labor party of Visions in
| promptly tabled resolution condemning
the hanging Of the Anarchists.
| LETTERS have come to light showing
conclusivelv that Captain Mills, the De-.
troit (Mich.) tug-master, first murdered
Mrs Rising and then shot himself.
| WM. CONDOR, a prominent Nationalist,
/ was sentenced at MitchelstOwn, Ireland.
on the 18th, to one months Imprisonment
at hard labor for intimidation.
| PROF. s. P. LANGLEY has been elected
| secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington, to succeed the late Prof.
| S. F. Baird.
The increase in the number of pieces of
mail handled by the postal clerks during
the last fiscal year over the preceding
year was 505,O0O,O00.
JOHANN MosT mas been released on ST.,
800 bail When Most was arraigned in
the Court OF General Sessions in New
York, on the 18th, the room was fairly
filed with Anarchist sympathizers.
The case is set for the 2Sth.
ATTORNEYS consulted are Of the opinion
that DR.. Richmond, who escaped from
the st. Joe (Mo.) asylum can not be taken
back there after getting beyond the State
line.
The National League and the Brother
hood Of Bal Players came to an harmoni-
Gus understanding on the 18th, and
modified contract for clubs and players
was agreed upon.
A VIGOROUS boycott mas been instituted
against the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany by all the local assemblies of the
Knights of Labor in the Lehigh and
Schuylkill tPa.) anthracite regions.
The Pope has nominated a commission
to examine his project to found an extern
sive philanthropic institution for the
benefit Of the working classes, to com.
memorate the jubilee. He proposes that
the sum of 100000 be raised to start the
institution.
The office of the first assistant Secre-
tary of State has been rendered by Secre-
tary Bayard to G.. 7. Rives, of the New
York bar, and accepted. Mr. Rives is of
Virginia family. His grandfather was
Senator from Virginia and twice Amer
lean Minister at Paris,
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

THE statement is published in New
York that the heads of the police depart
ment have decided that hereafter the
Anarchists will not be allowed to meet,
and that the carrying of any banners or
badges or the playing Of any music
should they undertake to parade, will not
be permitted. There are hints of probab y
sensational developments soon.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

AT the meeting Of the National pension
committee Of the Grand Army of the Re.
public in New York, on the 18th, the com.
mttee outlined a pension measure to be
presented to Congress at the next session,
including disability bill which will pro-
vide for the equalization of disability pen
sions for veterans widows and severely
manned veterans.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

DURING the last fiscal year mail service
was in operation upon $50, $50 miles of rail.
road and on 1894 miles of water routes
To handle the mails while in transit on
these routes 4,4e) men we're employed.
They handed and distributed during the
year 1884 800, $40 pieces of ordinary mail
matter, besides 10, 752.569 registered pack
ages and $50, 813 regis tered pouches.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

A SENSATION has been created at Wilkes.
barre, Pa, by an application from VIM.
Kibler and wife and others interested for
a mandsmas TO compel the Susquehanna
Coal Company to produce the bodies of
twenty-six miners who were buried IN No.
slope Of that company at Nanticoke On
December 1S, 1885, and whose bodies are
still entombed in the pit. 1t would cost
$3.50, COO to dig them out.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

IT is reported from Sarrakhs that Ayoub
Khan, who Lord Salisbury announced had
submitted TO the British, had 5000 follow
ers, but gave in his submission, trusting to
the Queens mercy and because he was
angry with Russia for refusing to supply
him with arms and troops.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

SEvENTY-FTvB men who were arrested
for taking part in the disturbances in
London on the 18th were arraigned in the
Bow Street police court on the 14th and
charged with rioting. Many were fined,
while others were sentenced to from four
10 six months Imprisonment at hard
abnr
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

THE station agent of the Chicago 81
Atlantic railroad at Rochester, Ind, dis.
covered dynamite bomb in freight car
on the l4th. The bomb was made OF
piece of gas pipe, with a fuse in one end
and a cartridge in the other. The dam
gerous missile was handed to the police.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

THE annual report of the superintendent
Of the Naval Academy at Annapolis shows
that institution to be in good condition in
all respects. A comprehensive plan in the
course Of all studies is recommended, so
as to make efficiency the first idea in the
training of students,
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

The President has accepted the resigna'
tior Of Land Commissioner Sparks ac-
companving the acceptance with letter
which is to be mad3 public If Nr. Sparks
chooses.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01
News from Everywhere.

A SIT sBoRv fight Is being made IN
selecting the jury in the Arensdorf mur-
der case at Sioux City, Ia.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

AT a meeting of the joint arbitration
board Of the National Federation Of Miners
and Mine Operators at Columbus, 0. on the
14th, it was decided to pay five cents ad-
vance per ton for mining, the advance to
date from November !, 1881, and continue
to Nav /, 1888.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

WHAT we say is of the nv NV b
but much depends on the h.e'.Ow~1Tsips1,, WA
say it. A harsh voice or y..ssraucs>
spoil the most beautiful u'''
Pr05Ytsgial,
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS writes
long aud rather caustic letter to the Pres
ident reviewing the controversy between
himself and Secretary Lamar and tender
ing his resignation.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

THE cornerstone Of handsome monu-
raent 10 the German poet Goethe was laid
in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, near
Horticultural ball. on the l4th, with
Masonic ceremonies.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

DIPLOMATIC relations between ROu-
mania and Greece have been severed and
the Roumanian Minister at Athens has
been recalled in consequence Of quarrel
over the estate Of a person who died in
Roumania whom both governments claimed
as a subject.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

The replica of Rinehart's famous statue
of the late Chief-Justice Taney, presented
10 the city of Baltimore, Md, by VIM. l.
Walters, was unvailad on the 18th on
Mount Vernon summit.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has declared his
intention df expatriatjng himself to St..
John, N. B. He says: 81 have done what
/ could to keep off revolution, and now l
am going to get out of its way.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

THE last fiscal year was marked by
MANY casualties in the railway mail
service. There were 234 derailments or
wrecks of postal car trains. Three postal
clerks we're killed, 45 seriously and Y
slightly injured.
Sharp County record., 1887-12-01

MRS MARGARET ENGEL, living in Ra-
cine, Wis, claims to have been the law
full wife of Engel the Anarchist. She
claims to have recognized the Anarchist
rs Eer husband by pictures and by the
published descriptions.